{"id":418,"date":"2006-10-02T19:44:20","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T19:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=418"},"modified":"2006-10-02T19:44:20","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T19:44:20","slug":"sup-hu-dizb-part-the-two-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"Sup hu dizb: part the two-th"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in March<\/a> I received a bunch of random greeting messages from Kiwi mobile phones, all in painful yoof-txt-speak. I wondered at the way my relatively new cell number received four different messages from four different numbers in one weekend – a statistical anomaly that hasn’t repeated since.
\nUntil this weekend, when I received three, all from different 021 numbers, all content-free variations on “hey, who’s this?”. Still I wonder exactly where this is coming from – is it really, as it seems, just random kids punching numbers at random into their mobiles in the hope of finding someone to chat to? If so, why do I get four in one weekend, then one or two in six months, then three in another weekend? The odds against that distribution seem small.
\nBut that’s not why I was prompted to make this post.
\nI just got via email from Telecom NZ’s mobile messaging service a notification that I had been sent a picture from a Telecom NZ mobile. I clicked through the link to xtra’s Lightsurf<\/a> and get this:
\n—
\nTo: [my gmail address]
\nFrom: [a telecom number]
\nSent: 01\/10\/06
\nSubject: A Picture Share!
\n
\n—
\nSo, anyone know who these pouting fourteen-year-olds are and why I received a photo of them?
\nAre we going for the bored-teenagers-spamming-random-identities explanation or the inexplicable-moneymaking-scheme explanation this time? Or is this just a sign that I am not Up With The Play, in the same way that little old ladies are confused by Nigerian scam emails?
\nI am baffled. Advice welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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